For most members of the defense establishment, military life offers less status than does a civilian occupation with a major corporation.

Within these suburbs, interesting variations are known in the date of the earliest civilian occupation.

When the Chinese Civil War broke out, most of them wanted to fight no more and returned to civilian occupations.

His civilian occupation was as a caulker, and he was five feet, six inches tall.

In his civilian occupation, he is employed as a captain with a major airline.

Militiamen held civilian occupations but assembled at regular times for drill and inspection.

The teachers and instructors for these courses were service personnel selected on the basis of their civilian occupations.

Wage, pension, and housing were important considerations for working men with a skill irrelevant to civilian occupations.

Other personnel are reservists with a civilian occupation.

The end of the war saw the Corps involved in the daunting task or returning a national Army to civilian occupation.